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A lot of writers get frustrated when their big dream doesn’t come true. Not every writer finds their beat writing fiction. Not every writer becomes a bestseller. Not every writer makes enough as an author to pay the bills.
So they turn to ghostwriting. [Read more…]
Before sharing my incredibly useful tips with you, I must begin with two huge caveats.
First, fiction is not like non-fiction. In fiction, the mood is sometimes more important than the facts. But even in fiction, clarity counts. If your readers can’t follow the story well enough, they will get discouraged.
And, even hitting just the right mood, your story will fall flat if they just don’t get it. [Read more…]
This is the seventh installment in a series that began as just a few random thoughts that I had to publish somewhere. When you gotta write, you gotta write.
If you have what it takes to be a writer, you’ll probably want to read the previous editions, so here they are: [Read more…]
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This word gets thrown into sentences all the time. Here are two ways it is thrown in for no good reason:
Throw it away! [Read more…]
There is no question that ghostwriting is expensive. Hiring a ghostwrite costs money. It is a highly skilled, labor-intensive job. But there is a very wide range of pricing. I have known people to pay upwards of $50,000 to have a book ghostwritten. That is not good.
I have also known people to pay very, very little…and that is not good, either. [Read more…]
Marina wrote her book as a healing exercise after escaping years of abuse. By the time she was through, The Black Veil of Deceit had become a literary anthem for women everywhere.
We have helped many people write their stories. Some of those stories hurt. Some of them are not easy to write. Marina’s is one of those stories that had to be written, even if it hurt to write: [Read more…]
Whether you have written the next great literary masterpiece, or a reputation book to promote your business, one hard truth appears at the end of your last edit. You have to get it published. As we zoom through the 21st century, you have more publishing options than ever. [Read more…]
Being seen as a good place to work makes it easier to recruit top talent and build a stronger team. In fact, the more positive the image of your company, the more people will want to work for you. The results can be impressive:
What is readability? It’s a measure of how easy a text is to read. For example, how easy is it to read a blog post or white paper you wrote?
Readability is most commonly measured in grade levels. The average person reads in the range of Grade 6 to Grade 8. This might shock you. You’ve had 12 grades of education. Or you’ve had 15 or even 20. But you still read at a Grade 8 level or lower. Yes, you can read at a higher level, but you would do so only when you have to. Why is this?
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
So said Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking-glass.
FACT: hundreds of English words don’t actually mean what we mean by them.
These are the little white lies that the English language tells us. We all use the words incorrectly, because if we all agree (nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more, say no more), then words actually take on the meaning that they don’t mean.
Here are just a few examples I’ve plucked out of an ocean of misused meanings. [Read more…]
